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Playing Doctor

Wonderful... wacky comedy... will undoubtedly become standard dinner theatre fare across the country... contains more wit than is usual in sex farce.

Asbury Park Press

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: 1980s
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Alcohol

  • Performance Group:
  • Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, College Theatre / Student
Rob Brewster's parents are very, very proud of their son the doctor. What they don't know is that Rob has used all the money they gave him for medical school to live on as he as has pursued his fledgling writing career. Inevitably, Rob's day of reckoning comes when his parents arrive for a visit. Quickly, he enlists the help of his secretary to be his nurse and his roommate Jimmy to round up his actor friends to pretend to be patients. 

Complications ensue when Jimmy decides he is such a good actor that he can impersonate all the patients, with the help of a trunk of costumes and bad dialects! The authors have written some zany farces but this one may just be their zaniest. It is great fun to perform, and great fun to see.
REVIEWS:

Moliere, move over! Wonderful... wacky comedy... This fast-paced farce will undoubtedly become standard dinner theatre fare across the country... contains more wit than is usual in sex farce.

Asbury Park Press

Sight gags for sore sides!

Newsday
Premiere Production: Playing Doctor opened at the Dam Site Dinner-Theater, Tinton Falls, NJ on June 3, 1983. It was produced by Kathy Reed and directed by Billy Van Zandt.

Characters

  • Casting: 5M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)

  • ROB BREWSTER - early 30's and simply gorgeous to look at; a struggling writer, fast-talking and oozing with charm, convinced he is the only sane man left on Earth.

  • JIMMY CARMICHAEL - late 20's, early 30's; a starving actor by way of being an atrocious actor, is so earnest and dedicated that you want to see him succeed; best pals and roommates with Rob.

  • MAX BLAKE - mid-20's, dumber than the dumbest dumb blonde; also a brunette; lives in her own world of logic, but she tries, works four times as hard as anyone else and is still behind; adorable and sexy, child-like and fragile, but very strong-willed and manipulative underneath.

  • ROBERT BREWSTER III - 50's, an overbearing, pompous millionaire; has time only for crippling businesses and chasing women, too busy for his wife and son; reeks of money, dresses impeccably.

  • JANET BREWSTER - 50's, a scatterbrained society wife; loves her son but never sees him not speaks with him; subservient and repressed, hasn't used her mind in years; looks the typical dowager.

  • CHUCK MURDOCK - 30's, the jack ass from next door; psychotically jealous of his ex-wife, who dates Jimmy, but is nevertheless a buffoon; a tennis pro.

  • MAUREEN - early 30's, a nymphomaniac; was married to Chuck but left him for obvious reasons; possessive and jealous, currently trained on poor Jimmy, totally innocent and naive, tries to please; a beautiful blonde with great legs.

  • UNCLE HAROLD - the ultimate hypochondriac, a big fat sweating man in his late 50's; an obvious case of nepotism, being Robert's Vice President; wears a bow tie.

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    Rob Brewster's parents are very, very proud of their son the doctor. What they don't know is that Rob has used all the money they gave him for medical school to live on as he as has pursued his fledgling writing career. Inevitably, Rob's day of reckoning comes when his parents arrive for a visit. Quickly, he enlists the help of his secretary to be his nurse and his roommate Jimmy to round up his actor friends to pretend to be patients. Complications ensue when Jimmy decides he is such a good actor that he can impersonate all the patients, with the help of a trunk of costumes and bad dialects! The authors have written some zany farces but this one may just be their zaniest. It is great fun to perform, and great fun to see.

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